Shawn Camp (musician)

Shawn Camp
Birth name Darrell DeShawn Camp[1]
Born August 29, 1966 (1966-08-29) (age 45)
Origin Perryville, Arkansas, USA
Genres Country, Americana
Occupations Singer-songwriter
Instruments vocals, guitar, fiddle
Years active 1991-present
Labels Reprise, Skeeterbit, Oh Boy
Associated acts Tim Mensy
Josh Turner
Website http://www.shawncamp.com

Darrell DeShawn "Shawn" Camp (born August 29, 1966 in Perryville, Arkansas) is an American musician who performs country and Americana music. Originally signed to Reprise Records in 1993 as a recording artist, Camp charted two minor singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts that year. Since then, he has found success as a songwriter, having co-written hit singles for many country music artists, including Garth Brooks, Josh Turner, Brooks & Dunn, and Blake Shelton, although he continues to record his own material as well.

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Biography

Camp was raised in Perryville, Arkansas by a musical family.[2] In 1987, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee and worked in the backing bands of such acts as The Grand Priarie Boys, Osborne Brothers, Alan Jackson, Suzy Bogguss and Trisha Yearwood.[3] In 1991, he was signed to Reprise Records, with two minor Top 40 singles charting in 1993.[3] He later left the label over creative differences, but continued to write songs for other artists. Camp's first Number One as a songwriter came in early 1998, when Garth Brooks reached the top of the Billboard country charts with "Two Piña Coladas", a song co-written by Camp.[2] Later that same year, Brooks & Dunn also reached Number One with "How Long Gone", another Camp co-write.[3][4]

Camp released a second album, titled Lucky Silver Dollar, in 2001.[3] In 2006, he was nominated as Songwriter of the Year by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music; also, Billboard ranked him #10 on their 2006 list of Hot Country Songwriters.[5] The same year, two songs co-written by Camp entered the country charts: "Nobody But Me" by Blake Shelton, and "Would You Go with Me" by Josh Turner, which peaked at No. 4 and No. 1, respectively, on the Billboard U.S. Hot Country Songs charts. Camp also co-wrote Turner's 2007 single "Firecracker" and George Strait's 2008 single "River of Love".

In September 2010, Reprise Records issued the previously-unreleased 1994 album, retitled 1994.[6]

Discography

Albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
US Country US Heat
Shawn Camp 61 27
Lucky Silver Dollar
  • Release date: August 7, 2001
  • Label: Skeeterbit
 — —
Live at the Station Inn — —
Fireball
  • Release date: March 21, 2006
  • Label: Skeeterbit
 — —
The Bluegrass Elvises, Vol. 1
(with Tim Mensy)
  • Release date: August 7, 2007
  • Label: American
 — —
1994
  • Release date: September 28, 2010
  • Label: Warner/Reprise
 — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

Year Single Peak chart
positions		 Album
US Country CAN Country
1993 "Fallin' Never Felt So Good" 39 64 Shawn Camp
1994 "Confessin' My Love" 39 51
"Man, What a Woman" — 72
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

Year Video Director
1993 "Fallin' Never Felt So Good" Steven Goldmann
1994 "Confessin' My Love"

References

  1. ^ "Listing for Darrell DeShawn Camp". Broadcast Music Incorporated. http://repertoire.bmi.com/writer.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&page=1&fromrow=1&torow=25&querytype=WriterID&keyid=520279&keyname=CAMP%20DARRELL%20DE%20SHAWN&CAE=128966143&Affiliation=BMI. Retrieved 19 January 2010. 
  2. ^ a b allmusic ((( Shawn Camp > Biography )))
  3. ^ a b c d Shawn Camp: About
  4. ^ shawncamppublicity.pdf
  5. ^ Shawn Camp and Jack Clement
  6. ^ Cooper, Peter (3 September 2010). "Shawn Camp's shelved 1994 album to be released". The Tennesseean. http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2010/09/03/shawn-camps-shelved-1994-album-to-be-released/. Retrieved 27 September 2010.